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The date of the fabrication of the postage-stamp would of course require to be verified by official report; but if the facts as stated by Bagwax were thus confirmed, then the fraudulent nature of the envelope would be put beyond doubt.
Bagwax, when I say that I have come across many remarkable men in many cases which have fallen into my hands, but that I have rarely encountered a man whom I have more thoroughly respected than I do you. Mr. Bagwax went away to his own lodging exulting, but more than ever resolved that the journey to Sydney was unnecessary.
Sir John liked Bagwax, though he was generally opposed to zealous co-operators.
'And we've got that; haven't we, Sir John? 'I think so. 'Duty, Sir John, duty! said Bagwax, almost sobbing through his triumph. 'That's it, Mr. Bagwax. Sir John too had given up his partridges, for a day or two. 'And that gentleman will now be restored to his wife? 'It isn't for me to say.
There isn't one, either, that is exactly the Caldigate breadth. I've brought a rule by which you can get to the fiftieth of an inch. Here Bagwax brought out a little ivory instrument marked all over with figures. 'Of course they're intended to be of the same pattern. But gradually, very gradually, the circle has always become smaller. Isn't that conclusive?
If we can show that that envelope certainly was not stamped with that postmark in the Sydney post-office on the 10th May 1873, then we shall get him out, shan't we? 'It will be very material, Mr. Bagwax, said Sir John, cautiously. 'They will all have sworn falsely, and then somebody must have obtained the postmark surreptitiously. There must have been a regular plant.
At ten o'clock on the following day he was at the Post-office, and there he found Bagwax prepared to take his seat exactly at that hour. Thereupon he resolved, with true radical impetuosity, that Bagwax was a much better public servant than Mr. Brown. 'Well, Mr. Caldigate, so we've got it all clear at last, said Bagwax.
'You'll have to swear it, said the doctor, 'and that with as little delay as possible. All this took place towards the end of August, about five weeks after the trial, and a day or two subsequent to the interview between Bagwax and the Attorney-General.
But it is so difficult, Mr. Bagwax, to make others see things. 'And if it didn't, and it never did; but if it didn't, why did they say it did? Why did they swear it did? Isn't that enough to make any Secretary let him go? The energy, the zeal, the true faith of the man, were admirable.
We are not struggling now with a jury, but with an impassive emblem of sovereign justice. 'And therefore the real facts will go the further, Sir John. 'Well argued, Mr. Bagwax, admirably well argued. If you should ever be called, I hope I may not have you against me very often. But I will think of it all.
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